CNG 102, Lot: 498. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 620/10-564/53 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.35 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” on forehead; WALW (in Lydian) downward on right, read from outside-in; all on plain background / Two square punches. Weidauer Group XVII, 108; Traité I 52; SNG Kayhan –; SNG von Aulock –. Near EF.

Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2013), no. 36.